July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
...) and has served as the chief propulsion technologist for space launch start-ups Gilmour Space Technologies (Australia) and Equatorial Space Systems (Singapore). Among his achievements in the field are the invention of HRF-1 high...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... also creating an era of competition among others. The US, for instance, has established partnerships with agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and UAE with a current emphasis on the Artemis programme. Meanwhile, China and Russia have...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... cause inadvertent interference simply by being there. An experiment performed by the Murchison radio telescope array in Australia has demonstrated the fact that terrestrial radio signals (including FM radio stations) can be detected by reflection...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... of useful power, first on the Moon and later on other planets The Artemis Accords - also entered into by Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, UAE, UK, Ukraine, South Korea and New Zealand - evidence the commitment of the...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... a sense of identity and belonging, but it has also been a source of friction throughout history. Representatives of USA, Australia, Canada,Japan, Luxembourg, Italy,UAE, and UK formallysigned the Artemis Accords during a virtualceremony at the IAC...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
.... Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite image, captured on 4 February 2016, showing the Gosses Bluff crater in the Northern Territory of Australia, around 200 km west of Alice Springs. The crater, visible in the left-centre of the image is about...
